President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is reportedly unsure whether or not to retain Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the Trump administration’s prominent COVID-19 experts, on their own pandemic advisory board.
Per Politico, some transition officials are concerned about Birx’s role in President Donald Trump’s poor handling of the pandemic. The doctor has been criticized for standing by the President even as he’s peddled lie after lie about the virus, including the blatantly false claim that injecting oneself with disinfectant is a cure for COVID-19.
For her part, Birx has clashed with Trump on the seriousness of the virus, prompting the President to attack her as “pathetic.”
A Biden transition official told Politico that the President-elect’s team plans to do some “house cleaning” with regards to the COVID-19 advisers Trump had appointed.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has publicly contradicted the President’s artificially optimistic spin on the pandemic, is reportedly the only one whom Biden will keep for sure.
Why would anybody even consider have a potential saboteur on any panel?
He should send her back to her first love of sucking up to Republicans. Maybe Alabama could use a state health director.
Fauci yes. Birx no.
Joe doesn’t need Birx for any reason. Send her back to whence she came.
She’s married to a former Clinton operative. She knows how to suck up to authority figures. She knows how to pander to an audience. She doesn’t know how to do strategic planning. She has stabbed numerous people in the back and screwed-up her own projects because of her pandering. There is a huge swath of the public health community that would happily see her gone and they felt that way before COVID.